Last night I dreamt we were at Simony Hut

Aussee, Austria · summer 1896

But the next morning, he approached me radiant with joy, and said: “Last night I dreamt that we were at Simony Hut.”

Original text — The Interpretation of Dreams (trans. A. A. Brill), Sigmund Freud; trans. A. A. Brill

Source: The Interpretation of Dreams (trans. A. A. Brill) — Sigmund Freud; trans. A. A. Brill, 1913. Ch. III
Rights: Public domain (US)
Record type: Research case
Place: Aussee, Austria · Austrian
Date: summer 1896
Uncertainty: Low — A five-year-old boy’s dream after a disappointing mountain hike.
Imagery: Child · Mountain · House · Father
Feelings: Joy

How traditions have read this kind of dream

Psychological

Family members, friends and strangers populate most dreams. Freud read many such dreams as wishes in disguise; contemporary researchers emphasise continuity with waking relationships and concerns.

Freud, Dream Psychology (1920)

Mythological

Dreams in epic and scripture are often addressed to someone — a wife waiting for a husband, a son receiving a vision for his family — and are told aloud to be understood.

Odyssey XIX; Genesis 37

Chinese traditions

Confucius lamented that he no longer dreamed of the Duke of Zhou; in Chinese letters, dreaming of someone is a measure of how much they are on one’s mind.

Analects 7.5

These are cultural lenses, not a diagnosis.

Dreams that share its images

I could make the summer Zurich, Switzerland · c. 1910
Strawberries, huckleberries, omelette Vienna, Austria · c. 1897
A fire in a hotel in a strange city Zurich, Switzerland · c. 1913
A thunderbolt fell on my father’s house Mesopotamia · 401 BCE
A mother praying for a father who never returns Tokyo, Japan · 1908
A friend at the bedside, like a breath of wind Scheria (setting) · c. 8th century BCE